Usually means: Substitute or replacement for something.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word in lieu:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. in lieu: Merriam-Webster
  2. in-lieu: Wordnik
  3. in lieu (of): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. in lieu: Wiktionary
  5. in lieu: Dictionary.com
  6. In lieu: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. in lieu: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. in lieu: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. in lieu: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (in lieu)

▸ adverb:  instead; in place

Similar:
substitutively, substitutingly, per contra, substitutionally, however, locally, aliter, therein, then, alternatively, more...

Opposite:
instead of, in place of, as substitute for

Phrases:
in lieu of, Deed in lieu of foreclosure, cash in lieu, deed in lieu, in lieu (of), more...

Adjectives:
alternate, substitutable, swapping, double, bestead, replacive, substitutionary, surrogate, second-string, overriding, cambial

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Similar:
substitutively, substitutingly, per contra, substitutionally, however, locally, aliter, therein, then, alternatively, more...

Opposite:
instead of, in place of, as substitute for

Phrases:
in lieu of, Deed in lieu of foreclosure, cash in lieu, deed in lieu, in lieu (of), Payment in lieu of taxes, Pay in lieu of notice, propeller in lieu of a propeller, in lieu of the fact that, in lieu of this, more...

Adjectives:
alternate, substitutable, swapping, double, bestead, replacive, substitutionary, surrogate, second-string, overriding, cambial



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